About The Guild
The Guild create compelling digital experiences that deliver tangible and measurable business results. We plan, design and build beautifully crafted and usable websites. We are a digital agency that blends big agency heritage and agile creative thinking with technical nous to make sure your digital experience is useful, future proof and above all effective.
Our user led design approach produces rich and rewarding brand experiences. We focus on the user throughout the design and build process. We look at how people will use your site and this forms the basis of clear user journeys and a sound interaction design.
We centre our design process around the three principles of technical, aesthetic and human, which creates products that are useful, useable and desirable. We put the user at the heart of the experience so that your digital presence creates a need to interact and respond, leading to loyalty, advocacy and stand-out.
Our agile method of project management delivers accessible and scaleable websites on time and on budget. As proven on recent projects for Jeans for Genes and Arts Council England.
We build content management system (CMS) driven websites across a range of platforms using both off-the-shelf and custom built systems and have delivered software solutions for: charities, not for profit organisations, local government, private sector businesses and start-ups. We specialise in building rich media and streamed video solutions.
The Guild are experts in developing content, applications and services in Second Life, a massive networked virtual world where hundreds and thousands of people gather daily to socialise, collaborate and communicate. We've developed Second Life applications for private corporations, public sector bodies and academic institutions, which means that we can offer you an event or environment in the virtual world to compliment your own work in the real world.
History
The Guild are a small band of dedicated and highly skilled designers, developers and project managers led by two individuals with heritage in crafting excellent digital experiences.
Kaoru Sato (Head of User Experience) and Clint Golding (Managing Director) have previously worked together at leading agencies, before founding The Guild in 2004
Our clients have included The Arts Council, British Film Institute, Beck’s Bier, Sony, HBOS, Orange, ITV and many startups and SMEs.
Awards and nominations: BIMA Awards, PPAi, Revolution, Interactive BAFTAs from 2001 – 6 for Goldfish, Microsoft, hi8us. Kaoru’s weblog voted in top 50 UK blogs by .net magazine, 2006
Join us
The Guild are looking for excellent permanent and freelance developers, IAs, designers and project managers at all levels to help us continue to do fantastic work on web and mobile projects.
We're particularly interested in people with expertise delivering video content via mobile and web platforms.
If you fit the bill, email your CV and a 300 word covering letter describing your strengths and ambitions to iwanttobe@theguildnetwork.com.
Submissions from agencies will be ignored so please don't waste your time or ours.
Virtual Worlds
We're also keen to hear from developers and designers experienced in the following virtual world platforms: Second Life, There, Forterra Olive and virtual world interoperability projects.
Contact sonsofpioneers@theguildnetwork.com or IM Kei Mars in Second Life and let us know who you are.